Proms audiences have a tendency to be overly enthusiastic in showing their
appreciation, with an arsenal of rituals and traditions at the ready to show
their praise and adulation for their idols.
Month: July 2010
Simon Boccanegra at the Proms
Opera’s Brigadoon — OTSL’s 2010 Season of the Sublime
At the beginning of every summer, an oasis of music and theater appears like
magic in the suburbs of St. Louis.
Meistersinger at the Proms
The BBC Proms brought the Welsh National Opera’s hit Die Meistersinger von N¸rnberg to the Royal Albert Hall and to the world, via international broadcast.
Paul Groves shines in dizzying take on ‘Tales’
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/LocalNews/Paul-Groves-shines-in-dizzying-take-on–Tales-
Mahler’s 8th at Royal Albert Hall
A performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony could only ever be relatively underwhelming; even a car crash of a performance would impress in some sense, indeed most likely in quite a few.
Darkness Visible: Dowland and beyond
This was a recital of concentrated intensity — a remarkable dialogue between texts, timbres and idioms, across ages and among performers.
Tosca at Orange
There was a time when the likes of Luc Bondy and Francesca Zambello staged operas for the ChorÈgies d’Orange in its famed ThÈ‚tre Antique.
Star Power in Z¸rich’s Rosenkavalier
The annual Z¸rcher Festspiel banked on a heavy hitter to generate excitement for its revival of Der Rosenkavalier.
The Duchess of Malfi, Great Eastern Quay, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/087b4056-906a-11df-ad26-00144feab49a.html